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In this session, moderators Julie Comins and Bob Meyers will take a deep dive into Shakespeare’s portrait of two very different English kings, two generations apart and alike in name only––one who abdicates the throne due to weakness and poor judgment, the other who ascends the throne by the vilest means possible. We will consider villains and victims, traitors and treason, the Divine Right of Kings, Queens’ curses, how power is transferred, sins of omission and commission, and who is it that serves as the conscience of the King, absent a court jester.